In about half an hour, I have to do a thing on the phone. The prospect of "You have to make a phone call" makes me a wreck for hours beforehand. It hangs over my head like that one sword, uh, what's it called [looks it up] Sword of Damocles. Huh. I don't think that metaphor works in this case, but screw it, I'm taking it.

THE THINGS I DO FOR LOVE ( Read more... )

"Welcome back to Livejournal, woekitten! You wanted your language settings set permanently to espanol, right?"

...Yeah, sure. Why not.

I was only recently made aware of this clip from some 700 Club program titled "Teens Sucking Dragon Dicks for Satan."*

(*Not actual program title)

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Whoof. This is pretty great. I've only played Dungeons and Dragons once, but I think there's enough here for me to break out the point form ( Read more... )

Our apartment is by the garbage chute, unfortunately, which causes some interesting odours to waft into our private lives at the very beginning of the week ( Read more... )

whatifoundthere recently shared some magnificent insight on Papers, Please, "A Dystopian Document Thriller." Papers, Please is a time-management game of sorts that you "play" as a border guard for a grim, grey eastern European country at the height of the Cold War. True to life, corruption and bribery abound, and there is no right or wrong way to get through the ( Read more... )

Hi LJ! Let me tell you about my stupid crazy busy life. I'm writing like mad and very much chained to my desk. Insert simile about monkeys and typewriters. These days I'm primarily adding bytes to Pocket Gamer, Gamezebo, Android Shock, and as of September, I've been About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3/DS for four years! *Confetti ( Read more... )

I don't have kids, so maybe I shouldn't be commenting on stuff that involves raising kids, but I dunno. The Internet is currently jizzing itself over sensei Louis CK's revelation that he's never going to let his kids have smartphones, and I think that stance is, well, kind of horse shit ( Read more... )

I took away three things from Hebrew school: Two of the clearest, most beautiful images ever burnt into my head (more on that in a bit, but just saying up front that neither of them have to do with the wisdom of the Torah or the knowledge of our scholars), and a love for the stories in Genesis ( Read more... )

A Twitter exchange drove me to check out the music video for Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" for the first time in, like, ten million years.

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The video's fuckin' weird to begin with. But watching it now and taking in all its shirtless, ghostly winged angels, ninjas, wrestlers, swimmers, and school boys makes me realise ( Read more... )

A thing I was thinking of (oh no! Run ( Read more... )